Defining Our Experience: A Psychosocial Analysis of the Racial, Gendered and Subjectivity of Black Women Employees in the British Prison Service

Prison occupation literature portrays an axiomatic image of the white male prison officer, which has a significant impact on mainstream society’ s perception of the people who work in prisons. This image of the prison employee inadvertently renders black women ‘invisible’and places them on the margi...

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Autor principal: Thomas, Marcia Veronica (Autor)
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Publicado: 2016
En:Año: 2016
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